The Temple of Dagon

Ok, this isn't a story inspired by the Mythos, but I thought I'd share this small overlookable reference I discovered in a story. And out of all places to drop a Mythos reference in, this had to be the unlikeliest: a Donald Duck comic.

In one of the comics (which I won't waste a long time explaining about), D.D. is in an airport in one part, waiting for an arriving flight. The comic shows the electronic board of arriving flights. To tie in with the story's plotline, the board shows some notorious places where planes are coming from (Tortuga, Bermuda, etc.). However, I couldn't help but grin when I read the last two places. Duckburg Airport must have a widespread service area, as there are planes arriving from Yuggoth and Leng. I think this was supposed to be a joke, because as it's an arriving flight, it's coming 'from Yuggoth' .

Nice Mythos sighting

Adding video games to the comic book sighting, in Medal Of Honor: Frontline there is a level where in a bar where nazi's are drinking, is a picture on the wall and on the picture is Lovecraft himself.

Laughed my *ss off the first time I saw it.

Good one! That made me want to buy Frontline for my PS2 (or get my friend to buy it and borrow it half a year later, my usual mode of getting games).

It might also be of notice that in another D.D. comic, the word Necronomicon appears on the side of the page, though the story had nothing to do with the book. It just required some creepy gothic text and decorations for the story, and the writers probably wanted to rip out the creepiest Latin word they could think of.

Great references! It makes me want to setup a page to list them all

Never would of expected Donald Duck!

Wouldn't Necronomicon be Greek (not looking in the actual Mythos stories themselves, but at actual Greek)?

Anyways, very interesting (not to mention funny) sightings!

Necronomicon was the Latin name, the Greek version was named Nekronomikon, I think, Something like that. It was Arab => Greek => Latin => English ? I once knew the history of the Nec to the letter but now have seemed to have forgotten it.

There are a lot of variations in the origins and meanings. Most seem to think it represents 'the book of the dead', while another common meaning seems to be "concerning the laws of the dead", as you cannot always simply get the meaning of each part of the word and combine them together. I would like to see an absolute definitive answer (from a linguist), but in reality, the true answer is whatever Lovecraft meant it to be, as it is his

There is an article at http://wikipedia.org on it, covering many of the possible etymologies of it. Quite interesting, if you ask me.

idolcrash wrote:There is an article at http://wikipedia.org on it, covering many of the possible etymologies of it. Quite interesting, if you ask me.

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